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Thomas Sloman lived a double life live-streaming grotesque footage of children being sexually abused (Picture: Solent)

A father who lived a double life live-streaming grotesque footage of children being sexually abused has been jailed for 11 years.

Thomas Sloman, 43, has been called ‘monstrous’ and ‘evil’ for requesting to see girls as young as four or five.

The twisted paedophile was able to lead a normal family life in the UK while streaming the abuse from abroad.

But married Sloman’s perversions were uncovered by officers from the National Crime Agency.

Evidence showed he actively solicited for images online, and arranged to view abuse in the Philippines over the internet, nearly 7,000 miles away from his home, in the UK.

Winchester Crown Court, Hants, heard it was ‘mystifying’ how Sloman, of Basingstoke, Hants, was able to live two separate lives.

Winchester Crown Court (Picture: Alamy)

Nick Tucker, mitigating, said: ‘He does claim to have had young girls before in the Philippines and says he has had sex with them.

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‘One way which he’s seeking gratification is to boast about what he may or may not have already done in the past.’

Describing the offences as ‘monstrous’, he added: ‘I don’t shy away from that.’

The court was told there was no suggestion Sloman was ‘anything but a good and loving father’ to his two young children. Tucker added: ‘It’s mystifying how someone can compartmentalise their life in such a way to be a devoted father and then commit offences to other people’s children.”

Sloman tried to claim his computer had been hacked, but was convicted of 19 counts relating to making thousands of indecent images of children, and attempting to commission sexual offences against children.

Sloman, whose wife is Filipino, had visited the Philippines on a number of occasions, and chat room records showed he referred to repeatedly raping a young girl.

Officers from the NCA raided his home in January 2015, seizing a number of computers and electronic devices.

Forensic analysis showed they contained around 12,000 indecent images, including more than 2,000 classed as category A, indicating the worst forms of abuse.

He was convicted of 10 counts of making indecent images of children and nine counts of commissioning or attempting to commission sex offences against children, between 2008 and 2014.